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To be honest, I don't know how anyone can accept the major narratives of the modern Republican Party without being deemed stupid, considering that the entire point of the GOP is organized, deliberate stupidity on a massive scale.

You can be intelligent and conservative.

You can even vote intelligently for a Republican candidate.

But to support the actual party, overall, in this day and age? The only way an intelligent person could do that is to make the choice to shut down his or her brain, and become a receptacle for blatant idiocy. Consider the following planks of the GOP:

1. Social conservatism.
2. Fiscal conservatism in the form of tax breaks for the wealthy, low regulation, deliberate sabotage of otherwise healthy social programs, etc. No actual cuts in spending.
3. Gerrymandering, voter fraud, disenfranchisement. None of these things can rightfully be supported by an intelligent person, and yet all of these things form the basis of Republican power in the US.
4. Rejecting science and education.
5. Tough on crime, despite being the single most disproven social policy in the history of the modern world.

That is what the GOP stands for, and every single plank is deeply embedded in stupidity and ignorance.

Like I said, conservatism is fine, I know many intelligent conservatives. But to support the GOP to that extent? That indicates a high degree of stupidity, IMO. The opposite side of that coin is the Democrats who still haven't learned the appropriate lessons from Hillary Clintion's 2016 campaign.

One of these days people will understand that perpetual growth in a finite world is an illusion. The biggest threat to mankind is not nukes, its greed. Well that and the lack of common sense.